Dr Natalie Jones

Education and Experience

Natalie Jones is a graduate of the University of Leicester,
completing her undergraduate degree in 2005 (BA Hons English) before
specialising in Medieval Literature at postgraduate level. She
completed an MA in English Literary Research in 2006 (AHRC funded).
Following her MA, she completed a Ph.D (AHRC funded), which was awarded
in 2011. Her doctoral research concentrated on the development of
Christological iconography in the Middle English religious lyric,
focusing on a range of poems from the twelfth to the fifteenth
centuries.

Natalie began teaching at the
University of Leicester,
where she taught a range of courses on Old and Middle English language
and literature, as well as the History of the Language. In 2011 she was
appointed as a Teaching Associate in Medieval Language and Literature
in the School of English at the University of Nottingham. She joined
UCL as a Teaching Fellow in Medieval English Literature in 2012 and was
appointed as a lecturer in 2013.

Research Interests

Natalie's research interests lie in Middle English language
and literature. She is particularly interested in the related areas of
Middle English poetry, medieval theology and iconology. Due to her
sustained engagement with iconography, Natalie's research places a
strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity and the relationship between text
and image throughout the medieval period. She also has a keen interest
in the patristic sources of Old and Middle English literature.

Natalie is currently completing her first monograph.
This work, which builds on her doctoral research, examines the
influence of Christological doctrine and iconography as it develops in a
selection of Middle English lyrics from the Synod of Durham (c.
1215) to the first Act of Supremacy (1534). In addition to shedding
new light on the theological and iconographic complexity of this
selection of poems, the work will explore the afterlife of the lyric
corpus, considering the development of the religious poetic tradition
into the seventeenth century. To date, Natalie has presented aspects of
this research project at a number of conferences and research
seminars.

Natalie has also written on the Middle English carols and the Old English poem, Christ III, in addition to reviews published in a number of journals, including Peer English and Church History and Religious Culture.

Articles

'Of alle the knottes that I se / I prese the knot in Trinite': Trinitarian Iconography in the Middle English Lyric, An aungell fro heuen gan lyth', Viator 46 (Summer 2015), forthcoming.

With Ben Parsons, 'Chaucer', The Year's Work in English Studies 94.1 (2015), forthcoming.

Review of Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages: Instructing the Soul, Feeding the Spirit, and Awakening the Passion, ed. Sabrina Corbellini (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), Church History and Religious Culture 94 (2014), 259-61.